Today, on the sixth day of the first lunar month, the saying circulating on the Internet is that it is six or six, and it seems that the worship of six has a long history. But about the six, if we look at it, there are indeed many peoples who have the history or legend of the six ancestors. There is a historical legend among Tibetans that originates from "pa mcun yab rla rdal chug", which means "Tianzun Cow God Liuda". Among them, the word Da is also used in Manchu, such as according to historical documents, the ancient Manchurian chieftain called Da Mo Fu Qi, and the Manchurian Origin Examination explains that the Manchu language means "long" yue "Da", calling "Lao Weng" "Sak Da Ma Fa"; "Da Mo Fu" is "Da Ma Fa", and "Concealed" and "Manchu" (i.e. Manchuria) are the same word transliteration. The Tibetan word for "rdal trumpet" refers to the ancestors. The Tibetan people of "Tianzun Cow God Liuda" originated from the "Six Ancestral Lords", or "Six Primitive Tribes", which is also the origin of the title of the book "Study of the Six Clans of Tubo".
According to the historical legend of the Yi people, their ancestors were named "Apu Dumu", had six sons, were called the six ancestors, and bred six clans, and later dispersed everywhere for some reason.
The history of the Qing dynasty royal family Ai Xin Jueluo also has six ancestors:
QingXingZufuman, the grandson of Qing Zhaozu, led NingutaBele to build a city along today's Suzi River (suksuhu bira), and the so-called "Ninguta Beyler" refers to the six Baylors, (Manchu Ninguta means six).
They are: Great Baylor "Deschku", ShijuJujuEcha region.
The second Baylor "Willow Zen", living in the Aha and Lo region.
Sanbele "Sochanga" hereditary and Logashan area.
Among them, the four Belles (Kyaw Chang An) lived in the "city of Hetuala" (hetu ala hetu - horizontal lying, ala - hill).
Wubele "Bao Lang A", hereditary residence in the Nyimaland region.
Liu Baylor "Baoshi", Shiju Zhangjia area.
The six Baylors built the city a few miles apart (mainly around the town of Yongling in Xinbin County).
The four ancestors "Jue Chang'an" were born "Tak Shi", and the Tak Shi was born "Nurhaci" (Qing Taizu).
Today's Heilongjiang Province also has the place name of Ninggu Pagoda, and some say that it is the place where the six ancestors of Ai xinjue luo lived, which is inconsistent with history. The Ninggu Pagoda in Heilongjiang is likely to be another six ancestors in the ancient history of Manchuria.
According to the legend of the Central Plains, Nuwa first created six animals and then created people, so the derived saying is: the first day of the first month of the first month is the chicken day, the first two days are the dog day, the third day of the first month is the pig day, the fourth day of the first month is the sheep day, the fifth day of the first month is the cow day, the sixth day of the first month is the horse day, and the seventh day of the first month is the day of the people. This is the horse day of the sixth and ninth days of the Chinese New Year.
According to folk sayings, yesterday I posted an article "Today's New Year's Fifth Day is the day to welcome the god of wealth, so who is the manchurian god of wealth?" It is said that the fifth day of the Chinese New Year is the day to welcome the god of wealth. Because everyone wants to get rich in the new year, it feels unsafe to meet the god of wealth, so they have to send away the poor god. According to Mr. Qian Zhongshu's "Pipe Cone Compilation", in the Xianbei Tang Dynasty, folk began to popularly send "poor ghosts", but only called "ghosts" and not "gods". After the Ming and Qing dynasties, the "poor ghost" was revered as the "poor god". Looking at the folk customs of the Central Plains, we used to say that the farming people hate rats the most, but then turned to fear, so that they said that the third day of the New Year was a festival of rats, specifically see the article I posted "On the third day of the New Year, the Beijing flag people rules not to go out to worship the New Year on this day, but to eat large cakes and roll eggs at home." The People of the Central Plains hated poor ghosts, and in the end, because they were too afraid, they were revered as "poor gods". This Lunar New Year's Day is the day of the "poor god".
In the article yesterday that introduced the fifth day of the Chinese New Year, there is a ceremony to send "poor gods" in the introduction of folklore:
The first few days of the New Year are chaotic, and it is not suitable for cleaning and taking out garbage. In the fourth year of the first year, it is necessary to clean up and pile up the garbage in the courtyard, saying that it is ready to "throw away the poor". On the fifth day of the first year, you can dump this garbage. The other day was to set off firecrackers in the courtyard of the house. On the fifth day of the first year, outside the garbage dump yard, a huge firecracker was brought, placed on the garbage heap, and the firecracker was lit, and the firecracker rumbled, indicating the completion of the ceremony of sending away the poor god.
The ritual of specially referring to the sixth day of the Chinese New Year as sending the "poor god" is actually similar to yesterday, and I suspect that the old Beijing flag people's greeting of the god of wealth and sending the "poor god" on the fifth day of the first year are combined into one. According to the tradition of the Central Plains, greeting the god of wealth and sending the "poor god" are separate. Today's ceremony is said to be: the Central Plains men are inferior to women, men do not care about the garbage, here the housewives are named to throw the garbage accumulated during the festival out of the yard, called sending poor ghosts, and the hanging note on the door can also be taken off and thrown out at the same time, called sending the poor god.
Yesterday's article said that the business opened its doors on the fifth day of the Chinese New Year. But there are also areas that postpone the day, but the new year's six merchants open their doors. According to the current national holiday arrangement, from the beginning of the thirty days of vacation, to the sixth day of the first seven days of rest, tomorrow began to officially work, perhaps this is also related to different eras.
Merchants open the door, for Tujili, generally will find a "all-round person" (husband, children, in-laws have a woman) to their own business houses to turn around, mouth said open the door auspicious and other auspicious words. If you do not specifically look for someone, if the first guest is a man, it is considered to be a sign of prosperity in the trade, and if it is a woman, it is considered to be the god of wealth. It seems to be a reflection of the idea of male superiority and female inferiority in the Central Plains.
The old Beijing flag people pay more attention to which festival to eat, this New Year's Day saturday and February 2 pay attention to eat the same snack, that is, donkey rolling. This is also a traditional Manchurian feast.
Author Fucha Chunbing
Produced by the original article of manchu culture network.